Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to fulvestrant for the treatment of patients who are postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive advanced breast cancer with disease progression following endocrine therapy.

This is written in the approval document as:

FASLODEX is an estrogen receptor antagonist indicated for the treatment of HR-positive advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression following endocrine therapy.

Citation

AstraZeneca UK Limited. Faslodex (fulvestrant) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2021/021344s044lbl.pdf. Revised January 2021. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Type	Biomarker(s)	Cancer type	Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+)	ER positive	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Fulvestrant
Sensitivity (+)	PR positive	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Fulvestrant
Sensitivity (+)	ER positive, PR positive	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Fulvestrant